Books written by Erik M. Conway
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Exploration and Science: Social Impact and Interaction
Roy Waldo Miner, for instance, was an expert in invertebrates and eventually held the position of curator of marine life and living invertebrates at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. Miner earned his degrees from ...
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Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming
“We have been working with Dr. Fred Singer and Dr. Dwight Lee [an economist, holding the Ramsey Chair of Private Enterprise at the University of Georgia], who have authored articles on junk science and indoor air quality,” Hockaday ...
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Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming
Shannon was a physician who pioneered the use of the antimalaria drug Atabrine during World War II. ... Many people have heard of James Watson and Francis Crick, who won the Nobel Prize for deciphering the double helix structure of DNA, ...
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The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future
Based on sound scholarship and yet unafraid to speak boldly, this book provides a welcome moment of clarity amid the cacophony of climate change literature.
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Exploration and Engineering: The Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the Quest for Mars
Finally, there had been no leader for JPL's navigation section to whom the project's navigator could appeal after being ... Arthur Stephenson's report put essentially the same recommendations in terms of reinvigorating the discipline of ...
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The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future
The Great Collapse of 2093. This work is an important title that will change how readers look at the world.
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Atmospheric Science at NASA: A History
Honorable Mention, 2008 ASLI Choice Awards. Atmospheric Science Librarians International This book offers an informed and revealing account of NASA’s involvement in the scientific understanding of the Earth’s atmosphere.
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Atmospheric Science at NASA: A History
Honorable Mention, 2008 ASLI Choice Awards. Atmospheric Science Librarians International This book offers an informed and revealing account of NASA’s involvement in the scientific understanding of the Earth’s atmosphere.
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Blind Landings: Low-Visibility Operations in American Aviation, 1918–1958
In this original study, Erik M. Conway recounts one of the most important stories in aviation history: the evolution of aircraft landing aids that make landing safe and routine in almost all weather conditions.
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Blind Landings: Low-Visibility Operations in American Aviation, 1918–1958
In this original study, Erik M. Conway recounts one of the most important stories in aviation history: the evolution of aircraft landing aids that make landing safe and routine in almost all weather conditions.
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The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market
The invisible hand is the hand of God.106 A recurrent theme in Read's essay is that capitalism produces miracles, through the power of the marketplace. Indeed, the market is so powerful that it can be viewed as a miracle itself.
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Exploration and Science: Social Impact and Interaction
... exploration enterprise . This includes the institutionalization of science and the internationalization of the exploration process . The last theme attempts to answer the question “ Why do we explore ? ” As is true for the scientific ...
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Exploration and Engineering: The Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the Quest for Mars
In Exploration and Engineering, Erik M. Conway reveals how JPL engineers’ creative technological feats led to major breakthroughs in Mars exploration.
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Exploration and Engineering: The Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the Quest for Mars
In Exploration and Engineering, Erik M. Conway reveals how JPL engineers’ creative technological feats led to major breakthroughs in Mars exploration.
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Blind Landings: Low-Visibility Operations in American Aviation, 1918-1958
In this original study, Erik M. Conway recounts one of the most important stories in aviation history: the evolution of aircraft landing aids that make landing safe and routine in almost all weather conditions.